Tuesday, July 9, 1968
KAMPER KANSAN
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—Kansas photo by Janette Clayton
ELYAKUM SHAPIRA
Straining for the perfect pitch, Elyakum Shapira, guest conductor, directs the band in a concert June 30.
Instructor Cline livens activities
By Sue Greenbaum Kamper Staff Reporter
He walks with a beat, wearing a peace symbol around his neck. He stops to talk to a group of girls. He listens to what they say. Then he jumps on his trusty bicycle and heads for a class—not to learn, but to teach.
This is Bill Cline, German instructor for the Midwestern Music and Art Camp and holder of the title assistant supervisor, which means he is a counselor free to worry about anyone from the campers to the other counselors.
"HERR CLINE," born in Mansfield, Ohio, received his bachelor of arts degree from Oberlin College. He has a masters degree from the University of Colorado, where he is working on a doctorate.
He has taught German at Boulder High School and the University of Colorado for the past few years and beginning this fall he will be Foreign Language coordinator for the Boulder Valley School District.
Cline is married and has two children, a boy and a girl, ages 6 and 7.
In his years at Oberlin, Cline was a member of the track team. As a senior he became its captain. After entering the service, he made the All-Army track and tennis teams. Cline was stationed in Germany, where for 18 months he entertained GI's as part of WACOM Special Services and the 7th Army Soldiers Shows.
Cline sang with a quartet which went from entertaining soldiers to entertaining royalty. In Oslo, Norway, the quartet gave a command performance for the Norwegian King and Queen. Cline just missed appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show when his quartet came in second in the finals of the All-Army Entertainment Contest.
WIFELY WITNESS
ST. LOUIS —(UPI)— Phil Pollack's wife, Mary, was his witness. Pollack with a 3-wood got a hole-in-one on a 168-yard hole. Mrs. Pollack saw the ball drop into the cup.
"He's such a great guy," one student said, "he gets his point across in class but everybody still likes him. He's sort of incomparable."
Shapira leads band stimulates campus
By Pat Hackney Kamper Staff Reporter
From "back there," staccato trumpets sounded.
A loud voice with a foreign accent echoed down the hall from the band room. . . Long black hair hung limply over a moist forehead. . . Elyakum Shapira, guest conductor for last week.
Shapira's face glowed with enthusiasm. "Again from the beginning," the voice repeated. "More staccato back there." He flung his head back; his hair billed. Music filled the room, vibrating — reaching every corner.
Shapira was working. His energy was contagious. He was part of the music. The tired faces of the musicians radiated happiness as they heard, "Much better, much better."
ABOUT 18 YEARS ago Shapira came to the United States from Israel with the help of Leonard Bernstein, now conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Shapira attended the Juliill
School of Music in New York City.
College courses taken in science
After teaching vocal music in Los Angeles, Shapira joined the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as assistant conductor. Six years ago he became associated with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Six previous Midwestern Music and Art Camp participants and another interested student came to KU this summer to begin college work in a special summer school Science Research Institute
The program which evolved from the summer camp is offered to any high school graduate who shows ability, achievement and motivation in science. According to Richard L. Middaugh, director of the program, little financial aid is given.
DURING THE EIGHT weeks students take regular college courses and spend much of their time in research laboratories.
Progress reports are given weekly at dinner discussion meetings held for science participants and selected faculty members.
Working under Middaugh,
Larry Brey is doing a project in
chemistry; Derald Carlson in computation center is studying under R. G. Hetherington, director of the computer center. Working in entomology with James F. Rohlf, associate professor of entomology, is George Gunnels.
Other students working in the Science Research Institute include: Ray Lash working in zoology under Richard Koehn, visiting professor of biology; Fred Murphy working under John Landgrebe, associate professor of chemistry in chemistry; Katherine Royer studying entomology under V. Eugene Nelson, assistant professor of entomology; and Donna Wilkin working under Byron S. Wenger, associate professor of zoology, in biochemistry and physiology.
ALTHOUGH SHAPIRA plays the piano and the trombone, photography, not music, is his main interest outside his work. Lacking a darkroom, he sets up enlargers, trays and developing tanks in his home.
Shapira likes to attend sports events and actively participates in tennis. He has not had time recently, for he conducts all four bands and the two orchestras, strings and woodwind sectionals.
THIS IS HIS THIRD YEAR as guest conductor at the camp. He said he enjoys the change of working with younger people.
After living six years in Baltimore, Shapira will move in August to England. He will travel in Europe as a guest conductor.
BIG REFILL
UNITED NATIONS — (UPI)—A plan to refill Lake Eyre, a 3,700-square mile marsh depression in Central Australia, with seawater to create a permanent inland sea is being considered by the Australian government, according to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Water, which would be brought 200 miles by canal from Spencer Gulf, is expected to aid irrigation, lower the inland air temperature and increase precipitation.
First mainland trip
Islanders happy, homesick
Dancing the hula, sand and body surfing, kite flying, and studying people are just a few hobbies of the three campers from Hawaii.
No. 2055 (Carol Yamada), No. 1831 (Dale Hamakawa), and No. 1931 (Irma Mukai) are all from Hilo, Hawaii, and are enrolled in the Latin division of the camp. The "natives," or "nats," as they are called by their fellow wingmates, are enjoying their first visit to the mainland, but are also a little homesick.
MISS YAMADA, 15, likes to body surf, play basketball, swin and fly kites. She also enjoys Latin, English and singing Hawaiian songs in English.
Miss Hamakawa, 16, likes volleyball, sand and body surfing, mud sliding and swimming. Her favorites academic subjects are Latin and world history.
Their eight-hour flight from Hawaii climaxed when they landed, covered with leis, on the mainland. They said everyone stared at them as if they were walking flower pots. The girls said that so far their visit to KU has been a wonderful experience. They are not only learning a lot, but enjoying it too. They really like their wing-mates and think their counselors are great.
Miss Mukai, 17, enjoys basketball, reading and studying people.
THE GIRLS agreed that Kansas is quite different from Hawaii. A few of the more notable differences were the bugs in the grass, (which is different from Hawaiian grass), the taste of the water, the hot, humid, fast-changing weather, and the fact that the houses are all built directly on the ground.
In Hawaii, all of the buildings are built on a slightly raised surface, Miss Yamada said, probably because of the termites. Also, it gets dark here so late. In Hawaii, in the summer, it is always dark by 7:30 p.m. Miss Yamada noted too that there were no Buddhist churches in the vicinity.
Miss Hamakawa said the only
differences in the boys is that the boys over here look so much older for their age.
Miss Mukai said every time she looks into the horizon it reminds her of the ocean, and she gets homesick.
The girls also noted the fact that there were no active volcanoes in Kansas.
ONE THING the girls found on
the mainland which they don't have in Hawaii was racial prejudice. In Hawaii, they said, everyone gets along with everyone else no matter what his race, religion or nationality is. They did add though that everyone here at KU was very friendly.
When asked what they missed most, they all agreed: Hawaiian food, and most of all, the ocean!
—Kansan photo by Janette Clayton
KITE GETS HIGH
Campers from Hawaii, Dale Hamakawa and Carol Yamada, show off their highflying Kansas kite.